*** Introductory Note

*** Historical Materialism: Marxian Summaries

*** Marxian Ambiguity

*** Historical Materialism: An Attempt at a Systematic Summary

*** Two Definitions of Materialism

*** Marxian Theory: Explanatory or Predictive?

*** Tenets of Historical Materialism

**** 1. The Class Struggle

**** 2A. The Mode of Production

**** 2B. The Stages of History

**** 3. Base and Superstructure, and Social Existence and Consciousness

*** A Summary of Points

*** Marx and Hegel

*** Marxist Messianism

*** The Necessity of Utopia